史黛西•希芙，1961年10月生于马萨诸塞州，曾就读于美国最著名的私立学校菲利普斯中学，1982年毕业于威廉学院，1990年前为西蒙-舒斯特出版社编辑，现为《纽约时报》专栏作家。古根海姆基金和美国国家人文基金得主。著有《圣埃克苏佩里传》（入围1995年普利策奖终选书目）、《伟大的即兴曲：富兰克林，法国与美国之诞生》（华盛顿图书奖和大使图书奖）、《薇拉：符拉基米尔•纳博科夫夫人》（2000年度普利策传记奖）、《克里奥帕特拉传》（2010年《纽约时报》畅销书榜）。另有文章见于《纽约客》、《纽约时报书评》、《泰晤士报文学增刊》、《华盛顿邮报》等刊物。 李小均，1973年11月生，复旦大学文学博士，深圳大学外语学院副教授，硕士生导师。现从事英美文学和翻译研究。著有《自由与反讽：纳博科夫的思想与创作》（百花州文艺，2007）、《傅雷：那远逝去的雷火灵魂》（文津...(展开全部)

史黛西•希芙，1961年10月生于马萨诸塞州，曾就读于美国最著名的私立学校菲利普斯中学，1982年毕业于威廉学院，1990年前为西蒙-舒斯特出版社编辑，现为《纽约时报》专栏作家。古根海姆基金和美国国家人文基金得主。著有《圣埃克苏佩里传》（入围1995年普利策奖终选书目）、《伟大的即兴曲：富兰克林，法国与美国之诞生》（华盛顿图书奖和大使图书奖）、《薇拉：符拉基米尔•纳博科夫夫人》（2000年度普利策传记奖）、《克里奥帕特拉传》（2010年《纽约时报》畅销书榜）。另有文章见于《纽约客》、《纽约时报书评》、《泰晤士报文学增刊》、《华盛顿邮报》等刊物。 李小均，1973年11月生，复旦大学文学博士，深圳大学外语学院副教授，硕士生导师。现从事英美文学和翻译研究。著有《自由与反讽：纳博科夫的思想与创作》（百花州文艺，2007）、《傅雷：那远逝去的雷火灵魂》（文津...(展开全部)

史黛西•希芙，1961年10月生于马萨诸塞州，曾就读于美国最著名的私立学校菲利普斯中学，1982年毕业于威廉学院，1990年前为西蒙-舒斯特出版社编辑，现为《纽约时报》专栏作家。古根海姆基金和美国国家人文基金得主。著有《圣埃克苏佩里传》（入围1995年普利策奖终选书目）、《伟大的即兴曲：富兰克林，法国与美国之诞生》（华盛顿图书奖和大使图书奖）、《薇拉：符拉基米尔•纳博科夫夫人》（2000年度普利策传记奖）、《克里奥帕特拉传》（2010年《纽约时报》畅销书榜）。另有文章见于《纽约客》、《纽约时报书评》、《泰晤士报文学增刊》、《华盛顿邮报》等刊物。 李小均，1973年11月生，复旦大学文学博士，深圳大学外语学院副教授，硕士生导师。现从事英美文学和翻译研究。著有《自由与反讽：纳博科夫的思想与创作》（百花州文艺，2007）、《傅雷：那远逝去的雷火灵魂》（文津...(展开全部)

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their first encounter in 1923, Vladimir’s letters to Véra chronicle a half-century...(展开全部)

The letters of the great writer to his wife—gathered here for the first time—chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight in life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and h...(展开全部)

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Véra Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Véra form a narrative arc that tells a forty-...(展开全部)

Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this d...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the émigré author of Lolita ; Pale Fire ; and Speak, Memory --wrote his books ...(展开全部)

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profou...(展开全部)

'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. 'It can only be defined in a living context together with others.' In this major new biography, Stefan Muller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. This authoritative biog...(展开全部)